Gloria,
I agree with your assessment, but would be harsher in condemning the anc. Ok, mandela and Mbeki chose what became neoliberalism; a compromise like that of Kenyatta after independence. No one on the left was happy. I heard chris hani at msu about a month before he was assassinated, and it felt as though the struggle was being sidelined when capitalism replaced socialism as the goal, and hani was there to lead the good fight.
Then came zuma.
I have heard only dismay over the corruption and fall of the anc away from original ideals.
Along with this, I don't know how many have followed the scandalous implication of ramaphose in the miners' strike. A complete betrayal of the ideals of the struggle.
I am pretty sure that progressives in s Africa are seeking alternatives to the anc, now.
ken
Kenneth Harrow
Dept of English and Film Studies
http://www.english.msu.edu/people/faculty/kenneth-harrow/
From: usaafricadialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of "Emeagwali, Gloria (History)" <emeagwali@ccsu.edu>
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Date: Monday 9 April 2018 at 11:20
To: usaafricadialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Winnie Mandela
Correction: The ANC emerged in 1912.
Let me say also that my previous narrative relates to the ANC as a liberation movement. When it became a political party the revolutionary spirit of the ANC changed. We know that the ANC in government has abandoned some of the earlier ideals.There is a rush to get rich overnight. Now I do appreciate the view that since Whites remained generally in control of the economy, a Black bourgeoisie would at least diversify the landscape and deny Whites the feeling of exclusivity and some kind of divine- sanctioned manifest destiny. But this has happened at the expense of programs that would more swiftly and radically reduce, income disparity.
There is also a new timidity- absent in the revolutionary years. To date, the ANC has not been able to bring about genuine land reform, and the people whose ancestors lost their land to settler colonists remain landless a generation after. We shall see what would happen with billionaire Cyril Ramaphosa in power. His recent statement on land reform may be an election gimmick- or maybe not.
Professor Gloria Emeagwali
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